Dictionary Definition
collector
Noun
1 a person who collects things [syn: aggregator]
2 a person who is employed to collect payments
(as for rent or taxes) [syn: gatherer, accumulator]
3 a crater that has collected cosmic material
hitting the earth
4 the electrode in a transistor through which a
primary flow of carriers leaves the region between the
electrodes
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
English collect< Middle English collecten< colligere ("to gather together", past participle collectus)< com- (together) + legare (to choose)< (Watkins, 1969)Pronunciation
Noun
- A person or thing which collects, or which creates or
manages a collection.
- He is an avid collector of nineteenth-century postage stamps.
- That old piano is just a big dust collector.
- He is an avid collector of nineteenth-century postage stamps.
- A person who is employed to collect payments.
- She works for the government as a tax collector.
- In the context of "electronics": The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.
Related terms
Translations
that which collects
person who is employed to collect payments
- Czech: výběrčí
- Finnish: veronkantaja (tax collector)
- German: Kassierer
amplified terminal on a bipolar junction
transistor
- Croatian: kolektor
- Finnish: kollektori
- German: Kollektor
Extensive Definition
The term collector may refer to:
- Collecting, a hobby
- Comic book collecting
- Collector (comics), a fictional cosmic being in the Marvel Comics universe
- Collector/distributor road
- District collector, administrative head of a district in India
- Collector, New South Wales, a town in Australia
- Collectors (TV series), an Australian television series
- Collector, someone working for a collection agency, a business that pursues payments on debts owed by individuals or businesses
- Collector, part of a transistor
- "Collectors," a short story by Raymond Carver from his collection Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
collector in German: Kollektor
collector in Spanish: Colector
collector in French: Collecteur
collector in Dutch: Collector
collector in Japanese: コレクター
collector in Ukrainian: Колектор
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accumulator, addict, admirer, amateur, arbiter, arbiter elegantiarum,
arbiter of taste, aspirant, aspirer, authority, base, beg, beglerbeg, bey, bill collector, bon vivant,
booster, buff, bug, burgrave, candidate, cognoscente, collection
agent, connaisseur,
connoisseur,
coveter, critic, demon, desirer, devotee, dey, dilettante, douanier, dunner, eager beaver, emitter, energumen, enthusiast, eparch, epicure, epicurean, exarch, exciseman, expert, faddist, fan, fanatic, fancier, farmer, fiend, filamentary transistor,
follower, freak, gatherer, gauleiter, germanium crystal
triode, good judge, gourmand, gourmet, governor, governor-general,
great one for, groupie,
hankerer, hobbyist, hook-collector
transistor, hopeful,
hound, idolater, idolizer, infatuate, judge, khedive, lieutenant governor,
lover, magpie, maven, miser, nabob, nawab, nut, pack rat, palatine, point-contact
transistor, proconsul,
provincial, pursuer, refined palate,
rhapsodist, rooter, satrap, solicitant, spacistor, stadtholder, subahdar, sucker for, suitor, tax collector, tetrarch, tetrode transistor,
transistor, unipolar
transistor, vali,
vice-king, viceroy,
virtuoso, visionary, votary, wali, wanter, wisher, worshiper, yearner, zealot